History of the Bra

History Bra 

Women have always tried to increase their female figures by squeezing themselves into restricting, uncomfortable clothes. Life has been reduced and the bus lines has increased, decreased, flattened or spread out depending on what was in vogue.

Back in 2500 BC, warrior Minoan women on the Greek island of Crete began wearing a bra-like garment, pushed their bare breasts upward and out of their clothes! Greek and Roman women later had a chest band that minimizes their breast size.

During the Renaissance, women stuffed the chest parts of their underwear with silk pouches and hankies, binding them in place as well as can be expected to create an alluring bust line. Since there was little to keep the bags exactly where they should have been, there was a tendency to shift into laughable positions.

Marie Tucek patented the real first "breast supporter" in 1893. Her foundation garments such as bras sold today are bags for breasts to sit in.

Then in 1913, conceived Mary Phelps Jacob of New York and her maid, Marie, a backless bra to be worn under an evening gown clean. She did this from two handkerchiefs, some ribbon and cord and amazingly started to get orders on the same night. Not willing to let loose of a good thing, Jabobs showed up at the patent office in 1914 with sketches to finalize his patent. Her invention was awarded the title "backless Brasserie '.

It should be noted that Jacob's brassiere design was intended to flatten the breasts and not enhance them. Her invention did not even have cups.

Without publicity, sentenced her brassiere company to Case and Mary sold her company to Warner Brothers Corset Company for just $ 1500!

Ida and William Rosenthal went into business as Maiden Form Company in the 1920s as a protest against the notorious flat-chested flapper girls of the Roaring 20's. Ida was the actual inventor of brassiere cups and designed bras for every female figure emerging from teenagers to mature matron.

You would not expect to see a mention of billionaire Howard Hughes here, would you? 

Hughes used his aeronautical engineering knowledge to take an unknown star, Jane Russell, and turn her into an overnight star. Hughes designed a bra that was Russell's chesty assets and put them in full in the face of all the gawking America.

Century-Fox had canceled the agreement for Hughes to allow them to release 'The Outlaw'. Critics, who had already seen it it was panning left and right. Censors, there was an attack on Jane's breasts are overexposed due to Hughes' wonderfully inventive brassiere improvement. Millions of U.S. dollars stood to be lost.

Hughes had all its leaders start a chain reaction of calls ministers, women's clubs and housewives tell them about the "horny picture 'Hughes was about to release starring Jane Russell. They responded by protesting wildly and tried to get the banned film - just advertising Hughes, is needed to reverse the entire profit system, and has the most incredible publicity machine in full gear. It was nice that saved Hollywood.

Over the years, other innovations were added to the basic bra such as the use of elastic uplifting, uses of lace and elastic fabric.

The latest developments have proved in health. Some scientists say that a full-time bra wearers are 21 times more likely to develop breast cancer than their non-bra wearing counterparts. The reasoning behind this is a limitation of function of the lymphatic system and decreased removal of toxins from the breasts. This study was strongly criticized for failing to take into account lifestyle differences, such as smoking, alcohol, weight, etc.

Statistics show the average American woman owns six bras. Of these six, one of a strapless bra and one is a color other than white.